Who is a 'Real Aussie'?

An Adelaide artist is using a photograph of a Muslim cameleer to get people thinking about what constitutes a real Australian. Peter Drew used crowd funding to travel around Australia and stick up 1000 posters of the man with the caption 'Aussie' underneath his photo. Image: Poster (Peter Drew)

The man featured in his campaign is Monga Khan who lived and worked in Australia as a cameleer.

 

The men and their camels came from Afghanistan and other countries and helped open up outback Australia to explorers from the 1860s to the 1930s.

 

They were also instrumental in introducing Islam to Australia.